Tag: WhatsApp
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EU fines Facebook 110m euros over misleading WhatsApp data
European Union antitrust regulators on Thursday said they would fine Facebook 110 million euros (122.4 million dollars) for providing misleading information over its purchase of messaging service WhatsApp in 2014. Calling it a “proportionate and deterrent fine,” the European Commission, which acts as the EU’s competition watchdog, said Facebook had said it could not automatically…
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Regulating Facebook, Whatsapp will negatively affect ICT growth – Danbatta
Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, on Tuesday allayed fears in some quarters that the Commission is out to regulate over the Top (OTT) services. Danbatta who made the statement at an ongoing interaction with media executives in Lagos stressed that Over the Top Services (OTT), such as…
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WhatsApp reports India Top Market for Video Calling Minutes; over 55 million Video Calls made per day globally
After intensive testing, WhatsApp started rolling out the video calling feature in November last year across all platforms globally. Now, after six months of the feature being live, WhatsApp confirms that India is the top country in the world to use the video calling feature. In India, a total of over 50 million video calling…
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Facebook tops 1.9 billion monthly users
On Wednesday, Facebook reported hitting 1.94 billion monthly users as of the end of the March quarter; up from 1.86 billion in the previous quarter and 1.65 billion in the same quarter a year earlier. Facebook now has 1.28 billion people who use its services every single day, up from 18% year-over-year. According to CNNtech,…
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Checkout how people reacted after WhatsApp went offline globally
Last night, May 4, 2017, popular messaging app, WhatsApp had technical issues and was offline for over 2-hours in some parts of the world. It was unprecedented, no one saw it coming and the world panicked. The service has since been restored and WhatsApp is yet to make an official statement as to what led…
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WhatsApp, Gmail into tougher EU Privacy Proposal
Online messaging and email services such as WhatsApp, iMessage and Gmail will face tough new rules on how they can track users under a proposal presented by the European Union executive on Tuesday. The web players will have to guarantee the confidentiality of their customers’ conversations and ask for their consent before tracking them online…
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Users send 63 billion messages globally on WhatsApp New Year’s Eve
WhatsApp has revealed that users of the instant messaging platform sent a massive total of 63 billion messages on New Year’s Eve. As we reported last week, a very significant part of that massive number was generated by India – which saw 14 billion messages being sent on the day. Both numbers set new single-day…
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WhatsApp delivers record 14 billion messages for Indians New Year’s Eve
WhatsApp has announced 14 billion messages were exchanged on the messaging app in India on New Year’s Eve. WhatsApp said 32 percent of the messages were in some form of media ranging from photos, GIF images, and videos to voice messages, the Facebook-owned instant messaging platform said on Friday. The number of messages shared on…
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BEWARE: Internet fraudsters target WhatsApp users
Reports have emerged that Internet fraudsters have turned to WhatsApp hack, sending virus files that are capable of uplifting bank details of users over the messaging platform with the intention to dupe. According to a report, the virus, disguised as a Microsoft Excel files intending to deceive unsuspecting WhatsApp users, is a strategy designed in…